To Protect His Mate by Serena Pettus

Author:Serena Pettus
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal Erotic Romance, Shapeshifter
Publisher: Resplendence Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Abraham awoke a few hours later to the feeling of being watched. Keeping his eyes closed and his breathing even, he opened his senses and noted the strong scent of wolf…and Adam.

Stephanie was laying on her back now, one arm across her middle while the other rested on the pillow beside her head. He was loath to wake her, so he slowly shifted until he could rise without disturbing her rest.

As soon as he gained his feet, Adam’s pet, a female wolf called Storm, crept onto the bed to curl up at Stephanie’s side.

“What the hell are you doing in here, Adam?” Abraham growled. “Get your pets out of my bedroom.”

“I wanted them to be familiar with her.” Adam nodded toward the bed, the worry in his eyes smoothing the fine edge of Abraham’s anger.

“Why? They’re your wolves.”

“Because if they stay here, you have that much more security in place.” Adam gave a visual command with his hand and Lightning, the male wolf, approached the bed to sniff Stephanie’s arm, no doubt learning her scent.

“Explain to me just why you feel that is necessary.”

“Because the sheriff only has one of the men who attacked her in custody—well, he did, at least.” Adam rubbed at the back of his neck while casting another worried look in Stephanie’s direction. “She’d shot out his knee at the clinic, so the police took him to the hospital. They’re still not sure how, but the poor bastard was strangled to death with the cords to his hospital bed.”

“Damn! I was really hoping to get my hands on one of these men.” Abraham was aware his icy tone had set the wolves on edge, but there was nothing he could do about it. His eyes raked over his mate’s sleeping form and noted the little frown pulling at her mouth. A bad dream, perhaps? “I guess it couldn’t hurt to have them around, as long as they don’t make her uncomfortable.”

“She’s not Erica, and she’s tough as nails. Just look at her.” Leave it to Adam to guess that the accident had brought back bad memories. He always had been the most sensitive of the brothers, despite his smart-assed personality.

“I am, and do you know what I see? I see my mate. I see a woman who should have never endured any of the suffering she has.” Abraham hung his head, fighting to swallow the lump quickly forming in his throat. “She lost a child, her child, and hasn’t been able to gain any closure.” He looked up to see Adam’s stricken face and swore those were tears shining in his eyes. “I might have kept her from that pain if I’d found her sooner.”

“There’s no way to know that, Abraham. She may have still lost the baby. Sometimes Mother Nature—”

“Had nothing to do with it,” he growled. “Those assholes messed with her car then left her for dead after she crashed.”

A low, rumbling growl sounded from deep within his brother, and Abraham smiled, knowing it was little more than a baring of teeth at the moment.

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